Exploring GitHub Repositories

GitHub is awesome. It’s a great place to store your projects and it’s an excellent revision system. You can setup a page on GitHub, use GitHub as a CDN, and use their Gists for quick snippets of code. But, I personally use GitHub the most for exploring and finding great projects, libraries, plugins, frameworks, and more. You can start with their explore page but today I want to share some advanced search features which really help in finding interesting projects on GitHub.

GitHub search is based on Solr and I recommend reading their blog entry on search syntax improvements. Using that Solr-style syntax, we can yield some interesting search results from GitHub:

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I have also recently stumbled across Weekly hubReports which show the most starred and most forked github repos by week or month and by language. Also, this GitHub and BitBucket HTML Preview is extremely useful in doing a quick preview of GitHub HTML code where a demo is not available.